openSUSE 10.3 is Here! Bye-bye Vista: The moment I and possibly a huge number of Linux users have been waiting for has arrived. After almost a year of silence, Novell announced today the release of openSUSE 10.3. From the release announcement, this latest versioncontains new beautiful green artwork, KDE 3.5.7 and parts of KDE 4, SUSE-polished GNOME 2.20, a GTK version of YaST, a new 1-click-install technology, MP3 support out-of-the-box, new and redesigned YaST modules, Compiz and Compiz fusion advances, visualization improvements, OpenOffice.org 2.3, Xfce 4.4.1, and much more! These are some of the stunning screenshots I got from their website.

Have been happily using openSUSE 10.1 on my main workstation for a long period of time now. That is why I’m very much excited to try out this new version already. I feel like an Apple fan boy waiting in line just to get latest iPod as early as possible. But I still have to be patient because it will take about 2 days to finish downloading the massive 4GB ISO. Looking at those screenshots made me wish I had a faster internet connection.

I just hope it’s worth the wait and this new version will deliver as promised.